Social Security Disability Recipients Facing Gun Ban

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large

Because ���up-front��� efforts at gun control would fail miserably, any politician inclined to see more of it typically has to engage in end-run types of efforts to make it happen; attempts to pass ammunition bans and taxes on ammo are good examples of this, where the use of, and access to, firearms by the American citizen can be regulated and otherwise manipulated through less direct means. One of the latest, most outrageous examples of this would see millions of Social Security recipients deprived of their 2nd Amendment rights because of an insidious manipulation of federal law that says a ���mental defective��� may not own a gun.

In 2013, under this administration, a process was implemented whereby veterans who are deemed unable to manage their own affairs could have their rights to own a firearm revoked. Once the process is complete whereby the veteran is determined to need the assistance of a financial manager in managing his benefits, his name gets entered into an FBI database as a mental defective; being adjudicated as a mental defective is a disqualifier for own a firearm, per federal law.

Now, the same push is being made to the detriment of gun-owning Social Security recipients. President Obama is on the verge of signing an executive order that would prevent anyone whose Social Security disability payments are managed by a third party from legally owning a firearm. What���s particularly frightening about this is that the standard for depriving these people of their 2nd Amendment rights is so low; there is no determination made as to whether any are actual dangers to themselves or to others ��� all that matters is that management of their financial affairs has been handed to a third party. That���s it.